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Overview
Hardware
Installation
Drivers &
Utilities
AWARD
BIOS Setup
Glossary
Troubleshooting &
Technical Support
MK79
DOC. NO.: MK79-OL-E0210A
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MK79 .............................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Before You Start .............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 11
Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 14
Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 16
Hardware Installation................................................................................................................17
JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 18
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 21
CPU and Housing Fan Connector ................................................................................................................................. 24
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper ............................................................................................... 26
DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 27
STBY LED ..................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 30
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ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................... 31
AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 32
IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 33
IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 35
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 4X Expansion Slot...................................................................................................... 36
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED .................................................................................................................... 37
ACR Slot ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 39
COM2 Connector .......................................................................................................................................................... 40
Support 2
nd
and 3
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USB (1.1) Port ................................................................................................................................ 41
Chassis Intrusion Sensor Connector ............................................................................................................................. 42
CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 43
AUX-IN Connector......................................................................................................................................................... 44
Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 45
Battery-less and Long Life Design................................................................................................................................. 46
CPU Over-current Protection......................................................................................................................................... 47
AOConfig Utility............................................................................................................................................................. 48
Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 50
2200
μ
F
Low ESR Capacitor......................................................................................................................................... 51
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Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ................................................................................................................................. 52
Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................53
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................. 54
nVIDIA nForce Drivers .................................................................................................................................................. 55
The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek .................................................................................................................................. 56
Phoenix Award BIOS..................................................................................................................59
How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program..................................................................................................... 60
How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 62
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 63
Overclocking..............................................................................................................................65
VGA Card & Hard Disk .................................................................................................................................................. 66
Glossary .................................................................................................................................... 67
AC97 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 67
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................................................................................................... 67
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).................................................................................................................................... 67
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................................................................................................................................ 68
AOpen Bonus Pack CD ................................................................................................................................................. 68
APM (Advanced Power Management)........................................................................................................................... 68
ATA (AT Attachment) ..................................................................................................................................................... 68
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ATA/66 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 68
ATA/100 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 69
ATA/133 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 69
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 69
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ........................................................................................................................................ 69
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 70
CODEC (Coding and Decoding) .................................................................................................................................... 70
DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM ...................................................................................................................................... 70
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) ............................................................................................................................ 71
DMA (Direct Memory Access)........................................................................................................................................ 71
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................................................... 71
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory .......................................................................................................................... 71
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................... 72
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)....................................................................................................................... 72
EV6 Bus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 72
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................................................................................................................... 72
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ................................................................................................................................ 72
Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................... 73
FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock .......................................................................................................................................... 73
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C Bus .......................................................................................................................................................................... 73
IEEE 1394..................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Parity Bit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 74
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)................................................................................................................................. 74
PC-100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 75
PC-133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 75
PC-1600 / PC-2100/ PC-2700 / PC-3200 DDR DRAM................................................................................................... 75
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................... 75
PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................... 76
PnP (Plug and Play) ...................................................................................................................................................... 76
POST (Power-On Self Test) .......................................................................................................................................... 76
RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................. 76
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ........................................................................................................................ 77
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ...................................................................................................................................... 77
Shadow E
2
PROM .......................................................................................................................................................... 77
SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ......................................................................................................................... 77
SMBus (System Management Bus)............................................................................................................................... 78
SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ....................................................................................................................................... 78
Ultra DMA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 78
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USB (Universal Serial Bus) ........................................................................................................................................... 79
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)..................................................................................................................................... 79
ZIP file........................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Troubleshooting.........................................................................................................................80
Technical Support .....................................................................................................................84
Product Registration .................................................................................................................87
How to Contact Us ....................................................................................................................88
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Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later
chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved
in PDF format
, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can
get free download from Adobe web site
.
Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper
size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer
driver.
Thanks for the help of saving our earth.
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Thank you for choosing AOpen MK79. The MK79 is based on AMD
®
Socket 462 motherboard with micro ATX form factor
featuring the NVIDIA nForce™ (IGP and MCP-D)
. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the MK79 supports AMD
®
Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor and 266/200MHz EV6 system bus. For better graphic
performance, GeForce2 GPU 3D Graphics is integrated into the NVIDIA nForce for delivering rich,real-time 3D images and
animation consumes valuable system Bandwidth. MK79 supports 1.5V AGP interface with AGP 4x with Fast Write data transfer,
which pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 1056MB/sec. This motherboard comes with high speed of 6.4Gb/sec
HyperTransport, the Isochronous Link between NVIDIA IGP
and MCP-D. DDR266
and DDR200 DDR RAM are applied to
the maximum memory size of up to 1GB. The on-board IDE
controller supports Ultra DMA
33/66/100 mode and the
transfer rate up to 100MB/s. Besides, the MK79 has an
AC97
CODEC RealTek ALC202A chipset onboard for
provides high performance and magic surround stereo
sound to let people enjoy working with it.
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CPU
Supports AMD
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Socket 462 series CPU with 200MHz and 266MHz, EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology.
Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz
Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz
AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2600+(2.06GHz)
Chipset
The NVIDIA nForce™2 consists of the nVIDIA nForce IGP and MCP-D, which using TwinBank™ Memory Architecture, a
Dynamic Adaptive Speculative processor (DASP) to help boost CPU performance and the HyperTransport, a high performance
I/O bus interface with high speed of 6.4Gb/sec. Integrated in this excellent chipset is the Geforce2 GPU, which could provide
amazing 3D visual performance to create rich, real-time 3D images and animation and Dolby
®
Digital 3D audio. Of two PCI slots
provided, MK79 supports all master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus.
Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Master IDE
Embedded within nVIDIA MCP-D, this motherboard equipped with Ultra DMA 33/66/100 that supports two connectors, and that
means four IDE devices in two channels, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.
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Expansion Slots
Including two 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 4X slot. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed with data transfer rate up to
1056MB/s. For AD and SBA signaling, MK79 can support 133MHz 2X/4X mode.
Memory
With NVIDIA nForce™2 chipsets, the MK79 supports Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait
state bursting between the RAM and the data buffers at 266/200 MHz. The four banks of DDR RAM can be composed of an
arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512MB DDR RAM and maximum up to 1GB. The MK79 allows DDR RAM to run at either
synchronous or pseudo-synchronous mode with the host CPU bus frequency (266/200MHz).
On-board AC97 Sound
MK79 uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC202A chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback
system.
ACR Slot
On the strength of nForce MCP-D on chip, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps
Ethernet for office and home use. You may use ACR slot with LAN card connected for network access.
Six USB (1.1) Connectors
Provides three ports, six USB connectors for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.
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Power Management/Plug and Play
The MK79 supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers
Plug-and-Play
, which helps saving users from configuration
problems, thus making the system much more user-friendly.
Hardware Monitoring Management
Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor
module and
AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility
.
Enhanced ACPI
Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows
®
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR
(Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features.
Super Multi-I/O
The MK79 provides one high-speed UART compatible serial port, one VGA port and one parallel port with EPP and ECP
capabilities.
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This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.
1. Installing CPU and Fan
2. Installing System Memory (DIMM)
3. Connecting Front Panel Cable
4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable
5. Connecting ATX Power Cable
6. Connecting Back Panel Cable
7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default
8. Setting CPU Frequency
9.
10.
Reboot
Installing Driver and Utility
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Motherboard Map
PC99 Colored Back Panel
Resetable Fuse
ATX Power
STBY LED
Connector
SYSFAN3 Connector
AGP LED
AGP 4x Expansion Slot
JP17 Host Clock Selection
(For 1.5V AGP and ADD card only)
462-pin CPU Socket with Voltage
and Frequency Auto-Detection that
supports AMD
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Athlon
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TM
XP
NVIDIA nForce IGP and MCP-D
CPUFAN1 Connector
184-pin DIMMx2 supports
DDR266/200
(Max. to 1GB)
IDE Connector x 2
(ATA/33/66/100 supported)
FDD Connector
Black:
CD
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IN Connector
O
RealTek ALC202A
nboard AC97 CODEC
Front Audio Connector
Green: AUX-IN Connector
32-bit PCI Ex
p
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2
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USB (1.1) Port Connector
IrDA Connector
SYSFAN2 Connector
Front Panel Connector
Chassis Intrusion Sensor Connector
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup
2Mb Phoenix Award BIOS
WOL (Wake on LAN) Connector
JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper
3
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USB
(
1.1
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Port Connector
COM2 Connector
ACR Slot
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NVIDIA
nForce2 IGP
Socket 462
AMD
Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP
CPU
100/133MHz
System Bus
DDR SDRAM Socket x2
AGP 4X Slot
MCP-D
Serial Port x1
2
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USB Port
1
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USB Port
USB (1.1) connector x6
32-bit PCI Slot x3
Parallel Port
IDE Drive x4
ATA
33/66/100
DDR266/200
DDR RAM Up to 1GB
Primary
Channel
Secondary
Channel
2MBit Flash EEPROM
Audio CODEC
AC’97 Link
PCI Bus
AGP Bus
Floppy Disk Drive x2
VGA onboard
3
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USB Port
ACR slot
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This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard.
Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards,
and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system
component.
1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it.
2. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a
component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout
any procedures requiring ESD protection.
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You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures below.
1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power.
2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2.
3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds.
4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin 1 & pin 2.
5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.
Pin 1
Tip: When should I Clear CMOS?
1. Boot fail because of overclocking…
2. Forget password…
3. Troubleshooting…
1
1
Clear CMOS
Normal Operation
(default)
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This motherboard supports AMD
®
Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation
when you plug it into CPU socket.
2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the
CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into
the socket.
1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and
up to 90-degree angle.
CPU socket
Lever
CPU pin 1
and cut edge
Black dot
and cut edge
Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish
CPU installation.
CPU cut edge
Note: If you do not match the CPU
socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it
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Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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